Changing your password when you JUST SAW SOMEONE STEAL IT is not paranoid. Its equivalent is not wearing a bulletproof vest every time you go out; it's changing the lock on your house door after you just watched your coworker make a copy of it, and if changing the lock took 30 seconds and was completely free.
It never took off because it was slow, buggy, and unintuitive. I got better frames per second on Team Fortress 2. Entire sites were made dedicated to how Google Wave made us feel like old people using computers. Initially, Wave didn't even work on Google's own Chrome browser.
Google Wave got plenty of coverage. It didn't take off because it was bad.
On a related note, has anyone tried those collaborative diagramming tools that already exist? I expected (and would've been happy with) a multiplayer version of MS Visio over a real-time forum.
It takes light about the same amount of time to travel 1 foot as it takes a 1 GHz CPU to complete one cycle. This places a hard limit on how far apart your components can be even with zero switching/decoding time if you're running on a modern multi-gigahertz server CPU. Thus, the travel time is actually extremely important and as the article notes (and the summary is wrong about), this technology will allow the memory to be moved maybe a foot away.
Based on how people adopt new technology, my guess is that people will just try to pack more memory onto the same board rather than improve the ventilation.
I can tell you for a fact that they do a comprehensive check on each and every app.
citation needed! so much citation needed!
They apparently don't even check the size of the code, so unless you've got something more convincing than "you can trust me," I call BS. You know less about the process than a 15 year old developer.
I'd rather say it's because people find technology scary and would rather have someone hold their hands about it, and Apple's business plan relies and thrives on that.
If I were to be an asshole, it's not anonymity that protects me; it's the fact that there will be no retribution. Anonymity obviously helps with that, but non-assholes aren't the ones that are going to abuse people's real names. You know who DOES have the power to enforce the rules (without breaking the law by tracking down people based on their real names)? Blizzard!
I would like to point out that this is the same medical system that lost a bunch of student's social security numbers (including mine) not that long ago. I don't know if I'd trust them with my DNA as well.
I do. Propriety is bad, but open and poorly designed and controlled by a non-profit is STILL BAD. Free software is never going to be taken seriously if we allow "free" to be more important than "software."
Since they've responded to these requests for Linux support, my guess is you didn't actually try to talk to them about it.
The issue with Linux support is that they aren't allowed to by the licenses. In addition, a simple search for "netflix linux" shows multiple tutorials about getting netflix streaming working on Linux. An official Netflix forum post even addresses this compatibility issue and talks about how one of the developers uses a lightweight VM on his Linux box. http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/49086
Yes, using Linux means you have to put effort into researching stuff like this, but isn't that true of most aspects of Linux?
Oh stop trying to find ways to be offended. Hulu used to be a gem on the internet, a promise of a wonderful new way for us to watch our favorite TV series without cumbersome boxes and setting up record times. This new paid version just leaves a bitter aftertaste in comparison. Like Pushing Daisies, Hulu was amazing for a while, but nothing gold can stay.
Three years ago I'd have sworn the seas would boil before we would get something like this.
Get off your high horse and understand that things need to be paid for, and that this is as fantastic a deal as we're ever going to get.
It's called "technology". It improves over the course of three years. If you think this is as good as things will ever get, it better be because you believe the world is going to end in 2012.
...the same way Apple abuses "Genius," and that's probably the creepiest thing about the site.
"People e-mail me all the time about it. Is it legal? Is it really platonic? There's no 100 percent way to be sure, but we have zero tolerance if a friend says they were solicited. There's no second chance," Rosenbaum said.
You meet people through work, volunteering, hobbies, and through day to day interaction like at the coffee shop where you work freelance too many hours to have time for volunteering, hobbies, clubs, families, religion, or sports.
Honestly, people are compatible with far more people than they know. If you can't find someone you can get along with and confide in in a new city, you are not doing yourself a favor by pre-selecting who you meet based on interests on an online profile.
Except I trust lenders to do their homework on a financial situation more than I trust random slashdotters. Your idea is to TRICK them into lending when you can't even sneak it past slashdot?
Have to agree though. Zombies are once-living humans or threads. Those things up there are called "bots," although US Shows Interest in a Bot Quarantine Zone is no less misleading or hope-dashing.
He didn't commit the crime in the UK. Just because your physical body is in one place doesn't mean you didn't commit the crime in another. If I hire a hitman to shoot a US citizen in the US, then it's not a UK crime. If I somehow caused servers on US soil to be set on fire, it's also a crime in the US. If I hack into a computer in the US and start deleting data (which is what he is accused of), that's a crime in the US.
Slashdot Mirror
Changing your password when you JUST SAW SOMEONE STEAL IT is not paranoid. Its equivalent is not wearing a bulletproof vest every time you go out; it's changing the lock on your house door after you just watched your coworker make a copy of it, and if changing the lock took 30 seconds and was completely free.
And by that I mean why do 40% of people not care to use the rating system at all?
By contrast, only 60 percent of Netflix users rate any movies at all, and the typical person only gives out 200 starred grades.
Why??
Google never promoted it well
It never took off because it was slow, buggy, and unintuitive. I got better frames per second on Team Fortress 2. Entire sites were made dedicated to how Google Wave made us feel like old people using computers. Initially, Wave didn't even work on Google's own Chrome browser.
Google Wave got plenty of coverage. It didn't take off because it was bad.
On a related note, has anyone tried those collaborative diagramming tools that already exist? I expected (and would've been happy with) a multiplayer version of MS Visio over a real-time forum.
http://www.google.com/search?q=c%2F1ft
It takes light about the same amount of time to travel 1 foot as it takes a 1 GHz CPU to complete one cycle. This places a hard limit on how far apart your components can be even with zero switching/decoding time if you're running on a modern multi-gigahertz server CPU. Thus, the travel time is actually extremely important and as the article notes (and the summary is wrong about), this technology will allow the memory to be moved maybe a foot away.
Based on how people adopt new technology, my guess is that people will just try to pack more memory onto the same board rather than improve the ventilation.
I can tell you for a fact that they do a comprehensive check on each and every app.
citation needed! so much citation needed!
They apparently don't even check the size of the code, so unless you've got something more convincing than "you can trust me," I call BS. You know less about the process than a 15 year old developer.
I'd rather say it's because people find technology scary and would rather have someone hold their hands about it, and Apple's business plan relies and thrives on that.
If I were to be an asshole, it's not anonymity that protects me; it's the fact that there will be no retribution. Anonymity obviously helps with that, but non-assholes aren't the ones that are going to abuse people's real names. You know who DOES have the power to enforce the rules (without breaking the law by tracking down people based on their real names)? Blizzard!
I would like to point out that this is the same medical system that lost a bunch of student's social security numbers (including mine) not that long ago. I don't know if I'd trust them with my DNA as well.
Then maybe they shouldn't be trying to throw their weight around. There's a difference between a request and a threat of a ban within 15 days.
It does if you cock your hat to one side and saunter a little.
Whoops. I made a faceplant there.
I do. Propriety is bad, but open and poorly designed and controlled by a non-profit is STILL BAD. Free software is never going to be taken seriously if we allow "free" to be more important than "software."
That seems like a lot of work to set up a torrent.
Since they've responded to these requests for Linux support, my guess is you didn't actually try to talk to them about it.
The issue with Linux support is that they aren't allowed to by the licenses. In addition, a simple search for "netflix linux" shows multiple tutorials about getting netflix streaming working on Linux. An official Netflix forum post even addresses this compatibility issue and talks about how one of the developers uses a lightweight VM on his Linux box. http://developer.netflix.com/forum/read/49086
Yes, using Linux means you have to put effort into researching stuff like this, but isn't that true of most aspects of Linux?
Oh stop trying to find ways to be offended. Hulu used to be a gem on the internet, a promise of a wonderful new way for us to watch our favorite TV series without cumbersome boxes and setting up record times. This new paid version just leaves a bitter aftertaste in comparison. Like Pushing Daisies, Hulu was amazing for a while, but nothing gold can stay.
Three years ago I'd have sworn the seas would boil before we would get something like this.
Get off your high horse and understand that things need to be paid for, and that this is as fantastic a deal as we're ever going to get.
It's called "technology". It improves over the course of three years. If you think this is as good as things will ever get, it better be because you believe the world is going to end in 2012.
"People e-mail me all the time about it. Is it legal? Is it really platonic? There's no 100 percent way to be sure, but we have zero tolerance if a friend says they were solicited. There's no second chance," Rosenbaum said.
Couch surf.
You meet people through work, volunteering, hobbies, and through day to day interaction like at the coffee shop where you work freelance too many hours to have time for volunteering, hobbies, clubs, families, religion, or sports.
Honestly, people are compatible with far more people than they know. If you can't find someone you can get along with and confide in in a new city, you are not doing yourself a favor by pre-selecting who you meet based on interests on an online profile.
They can make do with dungeons.
Except I trust lenders to do their homework on a financial situation more than I trust random slashdotters. Your idea is to TRICK them into lending when you can't even sneak it past slashdot?
Ok. Can I interest you in some anti-frost crop saving technology?
Dreams don't leak red...
Have to agree though. Zombies are once-living humans or threads. Those things up there are called "bots," although US Shows Interest in a Bot Quarantine Zone is no less misleading or hope-dashing.
He didn't commit the crime in the UK. Just because your physical body is in one place doesn't mean you didn't commit the crime in another. If I hire a hitman to shoot a US citizen in the US, then it's not a UK crime. If I somehow caused servers on US soil to be set on fire, it's also a crime in the US. If I hack into a computer in the US and start deleting data (which is what he is accused of), that's a crime in the US.